It is with great enthusiasm that I can introduce my new luscious cleansing product "Lavishing Lemon Balm Cleanser". The cleansing balm has a beautiful soft texture, a warm natural scent and is extremely effective to remove both make-up and dirt. The special feature of the cleanser is that it contains a unique combination of oils, butters and emulsifying waxes, which allows it to mix with water in the hands, or the face, turning it into a deliciously creamy cleansing milk.

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WOW, do I have some juice for you ladies!!

I’ve decided to share my 3 BEST anti-aging secrets (besides my products of course) over the course of the next 3 months. I promise they will give you REAL lasting results and involves absolutely no cutting, injecting or chemicals of any sorts. They are 100% natural, free and super effective! They only take some time and commitment every day!

Facial exercises – yup you read that right. I started experimenting a little with this already years back, but I was never consistent, plus I used only a few exercises and saw only little results. My skin was already very smooth, and with very little wrinkling, thanks to my skincare line! But I could feel my skin wasn't as firm and toned as it used to be. Fast forward to today - I think I’ve tried all facial exercise programs out there and I’ve found out what works and what doesn’t. I’ve moderated some classics and I’ve also made my own that I’ve found works better.

Now I stick to a plan with 25 specific exercises, that I rotate with 5 exercises one month and then another set of 5 new exercises next month. They work all the major muscle groups in the face and then I add 1-2 extra exercises to target problem areas, which I find, gives the very best results, as all the muscles works together synergistically. I do them every day with one rest day a week. Today I’ll share 5 of those very exercises with you. SCROLL DOWN FOR PICTORIAL

Benefits

The benefits are many, there's a long list out there, but what I've seen people achieve- and my own results include; Lifting droopy eyelids (dramatically), regaining visible cheekbones/cheek lift, diminishing nasiolabial lines (lines from your nose to your lips, that makes you look tired), smoothing under eye hollows or puffiness, plumping up lips (seriously!!), lift sagging jawline, diminish double chin, minimize wrinkles on forehead, around eyes and lips.. etc etc...

When you think about it, it’s actually kind of awesome, seriously, you can lift your face, all by yourself, wow right!? I think the reason why people don’t do this more, or give up quickly and don’t get to see the results, is that we as a species simply want quick fixes for everything. The thought of doing exercises every day and not seeing results straight away, well, that’s just something that doesn’t appeal to most people and I think that’s why most women turn to Botox and/or surgery, which is reeeeeally the WORST you can do, yes it works immediately, but in the long run, it damages your skins connective tissue (elastin and collagen), plus it can also do muscle damage and make your facial skin even more loose and deformed over time, oh and Botox does not lift your face, so what to do with the sagging?!!

How it works

You have 43 muscles in your face and the skin is directly attached to the muscle tissue (unlike on your body), that’s why it makes sense that, if you work and build muscle, your skin will firm up too!! YAY right!? The coolest thing about it, is that it actually gives you a lift and ALSO minimizes wrinkles, and thus, you will look younger. I find there’s a lot of wrinkle treatments out there, but the only thing, except facial exercises, that works for sagging skin, is a real surgical facelift (involving knives, oh and the not-so pretty risk of face deformity, yikes!!) Facial exercises give you a very natural lift, so that your skin slowly comes back to previous firmness. The results will progress over time, so your face will keep looking younger, as you stick to the program. Just think about is as a part of your daily routine.

Criticism

Maybe now you're thinking, that you already exercise your facial muscles every day; when you smile, eat, talk even- Yes, that’s absolutely true, so you can already skip all exercise programs that merely suggest you smile big or scrunch your face different ways, that doesn’t work! At all! – What you need, is resistance training, and you have to feel the muscles burning, just like when you build muscle on your body. Ha ha, no, I’m not saying you should use a dumbbell on your face. What I do suggest, is that you use your hands to isolate the muscle and then use expressions for resistance - I’ll give you 5 exercises here, that you can try for yourself.

How to start

You should start by washing your face and hands, and don’t put on moisturizer before you’re done.

Don’t worry, in the beginning you might actually see some new fine lines appearing, BUT fret not, these are only superficial and will disappear again as you keep on with the routine and remember to massage your face very thoroughly after every session, using cream or serum in generous amounts. Also, very important, take a before-picture now, before you begin! Even though you WILL see noticeable results, the results are slowly progressing over time, so there will be things you won’t notice as much, if you don’t have the before picture to compare. And remember, it will not work to do only one exercise, you have to do all 5, because the muscles all work together. It's very individually when you'll see results, I saw results after 3 weeks in the whole face, the results around your eyes, will come pretty quick! And don't give up, you WILL see results.

Place your three middle fingers as shown, middle finger directly on the brow bone. Press and lift slightly. Now close your eyes firmly, hold for 1 second. Repeat 10 times. Relax. Repeat whole sequence 5 times (5x10), for a total of 50 repetitions. The last time, close your eyes firmly and hold for 10 seconds. Release.

Cheek lift: this exercise, will tone all the muscles in the lower face and will tone and lift and define your cheekbones.

Place your as shown in picture, directly on your cheekbone, press firmly, now shape your mouth into an exaggerated o-shape, you should feel a stretch. While keeping the o-shape, try to smile, lifting the corners of your mouth. You should feel your cheekbones lifting. Hold the smile for 1 second. Relax. Repeat 10 times (smiling, then back to o-shape). Relax for a few seconds. Repeat sequence 5 times (5x10). Hold last smile for 10 seconds, feeel the burn. Release.

Nasio Labial line smoother: This exercise will lift, build and plump the area around your mouth and your lips, to eventually eliminate the nasio labial lines (the lines from your nose to your mouth), and will tone the area around your mouth.

Place your pointing finger along the line from your nose to your mouth, resting your hand on your chin area. Press firmly and lift upwards. Create resistance by making an o-shape with your lips, you should feel a stretch. Hold for 1 second, repeat 10 times, then a small break and repeat sequence 5x10 times in total. Hold the last repetition for 10 seconds untill you feel a burn, then release.

The neck and jaw toner: This exercise will firm and tone your neck + give definition to your jawline, while deminishing any double chin.

Place your hands as shown, resting on your collar bone, ha ha ha, I know, it looks like I'm choking myself, don't worry, I survived! place your tongue on the soft bottom behind your front teeth. tilt your head up, while holding firmly with your hands for resistance. blow a kiss to the ceiling. hold for 1 second, then back to neutral. repeat 5x10 kisses ;-) last kiss, hold for 10 seconds, feel the burn. Release.

Do let me know how it works out for you, and if you have any questions, please feel free to comment below or e-mail me, I'll be happy to help, I know that it can be tricky in the beginning, don't give up. If you want a nudge when new content is up on blog + more tips and recipes that I only share in e-mail, be sure tt and sign up for the newsletter below!

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Finally, it’s here – The tinted lip balm and the healing lip balm. I’ve spent extra time and care into this project of making completely natural colourings and an ideal formula for a healing and protecting lip balm.

I found two plants; alkanet and annatto, which I’ve been making different strengths of infusions of, creating beautiful natural oil soluble colours. Then I mixed and matched them up, untill I thought the colours were JUST right, this took about a thousand tries, but it was super fun!! - and I’m so thrilled to finally be able to offer you lip tints in two different colours: Ruby Lip Tint (a super pretty light ruby colour), Scarlet Lip Tint (a slightly more daring orange red) and a healing lip balm (no colour) with chamomile and marigold.

OH wauw Sea buckthorn oil!

I juuust couldn’t help myself- I had to add this amazing oil to the Beauty Cream, it’s already in the Beauty Serum in big amounts, and after hearing so many praises of the effects of the serum, which of course is the formulation in combination, but I truly believe sea buckthorn to be a miracle worker on it’s own also. So I deciced to add it to the Beauty Cream and loving the result, I ’m sure you will too. Sea buckthorn oil is truly every womans dream oil! It's known for it's super anti-aging properties, thanks to the collagen boosting vitamin C, E and carotenes. At the same time it's very soothing and healing against acne and problem skin. Strenghtens capillaries, and therefore works as an anti redness factor, over time, while the betacarotenes provides a lasting glow!

Bettes Beauty Bundle

As some of you might have noticed, I’ve had to to raise product prices slightly. It’s been a work in progress, where I have improved the product formulas to the quality they are today, only choosing the highest ingredient quality possible, as well as considering the intense workload with formulating and producing everything from scratch. Therefore I had to go through all expenses and so forth, with a business coach, where we ended up with these new prices.

BUT of course, I ’ve thought of all of you true beauty lovers, and I have GREAT news - I combined the whole Bettes range for you in a pretty eco box ”Bettes Beauty Bundle” for a really favorable price – this though, is a limited offer of 24 packages available from today! So hurry up to get yours

Coming up!

Christmas is coming, and I really want to make some special christmas offers for you, for presents. So which gift combinations would you like to see? I have 4 different options, choose 2 combinations and let me know in the comments below:

The Beauty Cream and Beauty Serum + Luminous Face scrub 15 ml. sample

The Beauty Cream and Lip Tint (of choice)

Luminous Face scrub and Healing Lip Balm

Luminous Face Scrub and Beauty Serum + Beauty Cream 5 ml. sample

FROM DULL TO RADIANT IN 15 MINUTES

Autumn is THE time for self care and regenerating, don’t you agree? – that’s why, if you missed it on Instagram/Facebook, I have a very special, super effective DIY facial mask recipe for you:

I whip up this mask 1-2 times a week, this time of year, to keep my skin clear and radiant, try it out!

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Hi there beauties

I wanted to say hi and give you a little insight in my day to day life as a "beautytioner". A big part of my work, creating handmade organic skincare and beauty recipes, is gardening, organic gardening isn't for the lazy one, when you don't want to use pesticides, you have to get down and dirty ;-) Actually, to tell you the truth, I really love doing it, it's very meditative and satisfying, because you see a direct result of your work! - the image you see with me picking weeds (in reality there is no weeds, as a lot of them are actually edible, but I have to remove the ones that are suffocating valuable crops), is the most recent caption of my organic vegetable garden.

In the background, uphill, you see my herb and flower garden - I let the flowers grow among wild flowers and herbs, because nature is naturally diverse and so, monoculture seems unnatural for me, I only remove, what must me removed in order to let my herbs get some air and light.It's absolutely beautiful when everything is in bloom, which it isn't yet, but you can trust me to post pictures (and maybe even a short video) when it is!

Wooaa! I had been away for a few days and this was how the garden looked like when I came back - well, on with the gloves!

So this is how it looked after some good hard hours, yay!

On exciting news - as you might have seen on the facebook page, I've been working on a new product - the tinted lip balm, the balm base is a steady love affair, but as for the colour, it's complicated - as you might know about me, I really want to keep everything all-natural and apparently there isn't many options out there, when it comes to natural colourants - so I'm currently researching and experimenting and awaiting some herbal powders that I found, which have natural colour, that I'm very excited about, because I'm sure they'll be great for my balms! So stay tuned for updates on this! I love to prove that going natural and organic, does absolutely NOT mean boring or dull, right? So I can't wait to be able to offer you this lip balm to spice it up!

My gorgeous niece in lab-coat, helping me out with the formulation for the new tinted lipbalm. We tried some real interesting things, such as beetroot powder, which gave some very nonexpected results.

And finally, tadaaaa, I wanted to share a REAL treat with you today:

I got inspired to try out creating a super tasty variety of the already tons of raw wrap recipes out there - the result was surprisingly yummy, me and my hubby had these for lunch, two days in a row and I'm craving them again today. Try them! Even if you're new to raw food - you won't regret it, I promise - the extra bonus is that they are super healthy and beautifying, they have a lot of micronutrients and healthy fatty acids to replenish and restore from the inside! Eating a raw meal a day really helps you build a glow that lasts!

Directions

To prepare pointed cabbage leaves- wash leaves, cut off white stem at the bottom that has no leaves and place them in a bath of warm water with juice of half a lemon. Let soak for 10 minutes. Dry the leaves off with paper towels and using a knife thinly slice down the central root (to make it easier to bend the leaves for wrapping).

Place a pointed cabbage leaf in front of you and layer nut mix, red pepper slices, avocado slices, a drizzle of lime juice and sprouts. Fold over the top and bottom and then wrap up the sides. Slice in half and serve.